Interfaith Terms

people with different identities interacting with one anotherdiversity is a fact not a destination

PLURALISM

energetic engagement of diversity toward a positive end
pluralism is an achievement; the goal of interfaith

UNITY

diversity embraced by an infinitely generous loveunity is not uniformity

DEMOCRACY

freedom to advance one’s deepest personal convictions in public life

Democracy, in its essence and genius, is imaginative love for and identification with a community with which, much of the time and in many ways, one may be in profound disagreement.~Marilynne Robinson in Imagination and Community